#61: Hyperthyroidism, When Your Thyroid Just Won’t Stop

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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To continue our endocrine series, today we're talking about hyperthyroidism. Also known as Graves Disease, hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid produces too much hormone. Left untreated, it can lead to life-threatening complications. In this podcast episode, Nurse Mo talks you through hyperthyroidism using the LATTE method...how will the patient LOOK, how will you ASSESS them, what TESTS will be ordered, what TREATMENTS will be provided, and how will you EDUCATE the patient? It's a tried-and-true method that helps you focus on what you need to know for your clinical and nursing school exams! Thanks so much for listening, thanks so much for all the kind words, and best of luck in school! ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Nursing School Thrive Guide - Get the book that many nursing students consider the ultimate survival guide for nursing school! Available in paperback, Kindle and audio formats. (#ad) LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. Episode 58 - Listen to review hypothyroidism. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey there everyone this is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the
0:44.4	Strady Nursing podcast today we are following up and continuing our
0:49.5	Endocrine series and we'll be talking about hyperthyroidism. So we talked about hypothyroidism a few weeks back.
0:59.3	Now we're talking about the flip side of that. So quick tip when you're studying endocrine
1:04.8	disorders I always like to study them together with their counterpart if there is
1:09.7	one like low cortisol syndrome with high cortisol syndrome. So think about that. You have
1:16.2	hypothyroid, hyperthyroid. So when you're studying endocrine, if you can bunch
1:21.0	things together like that, it will really help you study and learn and
1:26.1	understand all the signs symptoms and treatments. Okay so hyperthyroid, that's going to come into play when the thyroid gland is
1:36.7	producing too much thyroid hormone. Remember hypothyroidism, it's not producing enough or it's not converting things properly.
1:46.5	So we're going to go through hyperthyroidism with the Lautae method the same way we did the hypothyroidism. So if you don't know what the latte
1:54.8	method is, great. This is a perfect introduction to it for you. But if you really
2:00.2	want to dive into it, there's a whole podcast about it by itself as well as a
2:04.7	blog post. So just go to the website straight A nursing student.com do a little search
2:10.3	for a latte and a bunch of stuff will come up. So a quick overview before we jump into the Lautet method is that Graves'
2:20.7	disease, which is that most common form of hyperthyroidism, that occurs
2:25.6	when the thyroid gland is producing too much of that thyroxene, which is T4.
2:31.6	So this can be inherited or it can be a result
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